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Books like Start Menu: 9 series to read next

Start Menu is litrpg and fantasy, set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Start Menu is 3 books, 2024–2025.

“Working for a strange company nobody has ever heard of, he earns his pay by the achievement.”
from the catalogue description of Start Menu: New Game

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Narnia
His Dark Materials
Tolkien's legendarium
Spellsinger
The Wizard Knight
Magic Kingdom of Landover
Fionavar Universe
The Kingkiller Chronicle
Tortall

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

“Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”
from the catalogue description

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His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
from the catalogue description

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Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the seas were bent and the mountains raised, there was Music — and from that Music came Arda, and in the west of Middle-earth the long defeat and stubborn hope of those who dwell there.”
from the catalogue description

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SpellsingerSeries

seriesAlan Dean Foster9 books1983

About music.

“Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger series follows Jon-Tom, a UCLA law student pulled into a fantasy world by the wizard Clothahump, where he discovers he can cast spells by singing along with his guitar.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Spellsinger →

The Wizard KnightSeries

seriesGene Wolfe2 books2004

Epic fantasy.

“Able becomes a knight, and because of his connection with the magical and spiritual elements of the world around him is soon also dubbed a wizard.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Knight →

Magic Kingdom of LandoverSeries

seriesTerry Brooks8 books1986

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Written in 1986, it tells the story of how Ben Holiday, a talented but depressed Chicago trial lawyer, comes to be king of Landover, an otherworldly magical kingdom.”
from the catalogue description of Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold!
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold! →

Fionavar UniverseSeries

seriesGuy Gavriel Kay5 books1984

Epic fantasy, emotional in tone, set in contemporary.

“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
from the catalogue description of Ysabel

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The Kingkiller ChronicleSeries

seriesPatrick Rothfuss8 books2002

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“The first two books, The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear, were released in 2007 and 2011.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Name of the Wind →

TortallUniverse

universe25 books1983

“In Tortall she does it anyway — and earns the right the hard way, through bruises, cold mornings in the training yard, and the slow winning-over of people who swore she'd fail.”
from the catalogue description

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Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Start Menu?: Narnia — the closest match to Start Menu on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Start Menu?: Start Menu: New Game. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Start Menu.
How big is Start Menu?: Start Menu is 3 books, 2024–2025.

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